Agip says gunmen attack facilities in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta

Source: Press Release - Two pipelines belonging to Italian oil firm Agip in the deep swamp of brass in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region have been attacked by unidentified gunmen, according to a company spokesperson.
The company said the production affected by the blast is 4,000 bpd, of which 800 bpd is Italian oil firm Eni's equity.
A company source told Xinhua that the second blast at the Osiama field and the attack on the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) facility in the area were noticed by the company workers were on routine check on Friday morning.
Security sources told reporters that NAOC pipelines from the Osiama oil field to Brass were blown with explosives suspected to be dynamites.
The attack had caused the Italian firm to shut in about 60,000 barrels per day of production facility.
State police spokesperson Eguavoen Emokpai said he was not aware of the incident but promised to check with the police formations in the area.
A military spokesman in the oil rich region Timothy Antigha said the force had not been briefed on the incident.
Armed attacks in the oil rich region, which accounts for almost all of Nigeria's oil output, have cut more than 20 percent of the country's crude exports since 2006.
Militant groups has launched several attacks on international oil facilities in southern Nigeria as part of its campaign to get what it calls a fairer distribution of the region's oil wealth to local people.